Pauline Boumphrey

Boumphrey was born in Boston in Massachusetts but was educated in Britain, attending Roedean School on the English south coast.^[2] She settled in London and later lived at Sandiway in Cheshire.^[3]

Boumphrey specialised in statuettes and small group compositions, often in bronze, and often of equine subjects.^[3][1] In 1925 she was awarded an honourable mention for a piece she showed at the Salon des Artistes Francais in Paris.^[4] Boumphrey also exhibited works at the Royal Academy in London, at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and in Glasgow and Edinburgh.^[1][3] She was a regular exhibitor with the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts and was elected an associate member of that Academy in 1925.^[2] Among the works she exhibited in Manchester was a 1942 design for a war memorial to the civilian victims of the Blitz.^[5] Boumphrey died in New York in 1959.^[1]